1419 Like Sublime Text Good alternative? YES NO Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text 2, a previous version of the program, can be downloaded... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Fast Startup Lightweight Minimap Distraction-free UI Scriptwriting Assistant ... Syntax Highlighting Add a feature It's a great code focused editor, just like Notepad++. Guest • Jun 2015 Disagree Agree
591 Like Atom Good alternative? YES NO A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Minimap Distraction-free UI Syntax Highlighting Support for Themes Add a feature Despite sometimes high demanding (for an text editor), good as an Editor/IDE. Guest • May 2016 Disagree Agree More advanced, better community, more support Guest • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree Amazing UI, large variety of useful plugins, nice features like multiple cursors, open source and free to use Ruebz999 • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree Atom can split windows and allow users to work on multiple files simultaneously, while also integrating plugins. I would say it's better than Notepad++ for many programming tasks. Guest • Sep 2015 Disagree Agree Great UI. Great Packages (extensions). Support for several programming languages. Great developers and community. Free and Open Source. Guest • Dec 2016 Disagree Agree
900 Like Vim Good alternative? YES NO Vim ("Vi IMproved") is an advanced text editor that allows syntax highlighting, word completion and has a huge amount of contributed content. It also has a GUI version called GVim. Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku ... OpenSolaris Xfce Fast Startup Keyboard focused Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Word completion Add a feature Vim is a console app and require to know its commands to use it, while Notepad++ is UI driven, anyone can use it. Guest • Mar 2015 Disagree Agree Fastest in use. You can improve your productivity and performance when writing. Guest • Jan 2017 Disagree Agree
296 Like Brackets Good alternative? YES NO Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License. Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Live Preview Add a feature
647 Like NetBeans Good alternative? YES NO A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Java IDE Automatic Indentation Code completion Syntax Highlighting Add a feature It has many options and plugins, e.g. you can create Java EE project and Dynamic Web Application. Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree Agree Netbeans and Notepad are slightly different, while Notepad++ is a easy, lightweight mode to write code, Netbeans is a full IDE with lots of functionality. Guest • Jan 2017 Disagree Agree
565 Like gedit Good alternative? YES NO Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins. Currently it features: * Full support for... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD OpenSolaris Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Fast Startup Syntax Highlighting Add a feature no sorting and don't reconize regular expression when 'replace' or search rmpbklyn • Sep 2015 Disagree Agree Gedit can't fold code, can't make ident lines, and the ident is strange! Guest • Jul 2016 Disagree Agree
405 Like Geany Good alternative? YES NO Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Xfce No features added Add a feature Geany in functionality and interface is very similar to Notepad++ Guest • Feb 2016 Disagree Agree
133 Like Visual Studio Code Good alternative? YES NO Code combines the streamlined UI of a modern editor with rich code assistance and navigation, and an integrated debugging experience – without the need for a full IDE. Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Mercurial support Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
252 Like GNU Emacs Good alternative? YES NO GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include: ... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Fast Startup Self-documenting Syntax Highlighting Terminal-based Add a feature Emacs is the be-all-end-all text editor. It takes a while to learn, but its code and text editing commands are extremely powerful. There's also a package manager for things like auto completion, automatic running, and more language support. Guest • 10 days ago Disagree Agree
153 Like GNU nano Good alternative? YES NO GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor. Besides basic text editing, nano offers many extra features like an interactive search and replace, go to line and column number, auto-indentation, feature toggles, internationalization... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Haiku Fast Startup Add a feature
188 Like Komodo Edit Good alternative? YES NO Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it'll be worth your while. ... Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
266 Like Notepad2 Good alternative? YES NO Notepad2 is a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. Simple as possible, but yet powerful. Has full Unicode support. Can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your... Open Source Windows Syntax Highlighting Add a feature Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.2.25, released on October 28, 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
184 Like PSPad Good alternative? YES NO PSPad is a freeware programmers editor in 8 languages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Some features are highlighted syntax, ftp, projects and so on. Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in... Free Windows Syntax Highlighting Add a feature More stable with huge files. Has implemented great function in Special conversions: "Remove Accent from chars". Guest • Nov 2016 Disagree Agree Excellent application, notepad++ sometime crashes and deletes the file contents (editing), PSPad doesn't have this problem. Guest • Jan 2017 Disagree Agree
143 Like Kate Good alternative? YES NO Text editor for the KDE desktop environment with support for multiple languages and syntax highlighting. It is extensible with plugins. Features a MDI interface. Kate is a multi document editor, based on a rewritten version of the... Open Source Windows Linux BSD KDE Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
237 Like TextMate Good alternative? YES NO TextMate is not an IDE but by using its powerful snippets, macros, and unique scoping system, it can often provide features that even a language specific IDE lacks. It has enough project management features to keep most users happy. Commercial Mac Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
253 Like Coda Good alternative? YES NO Coda is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor with pixel-perfect preview and a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files. And a dash of SSH too. It’s got everything you expect: syntax highlighting for tons of... Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Built-in File Manager Collaborative Syntax Highlighting Add a feature
123 Like Bluefish Editor Good alternative? YES NO Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic... Open Source Mac Windows Linux Support for SFTP Add a feature
128 Like SciTE Good alternative? YES NO SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I... Open Source Windows Linux BSD Xfce No features added Add a feature A simpler version of Notepad++. Supports all the jazz you'll need: syntax higlighting, it's clever with Tabs, mass renaminc, etc. No macros though. xxavx • Sep 2016 Disagree Agree
133 Like UltraEdit Good alternative? YES NO UltraEdit is the ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. An industry-award winner, UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on 32-bit Windows... Commercial Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
140 Like TextWrangler Good alternative? YES NO TextWrangler is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from... Free Mac Support for Unicode Add a feature
67 Like AkelPad Good alternative? YES NO A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast. User interface in 20 languages. Features * Single window (SDI), multi-window (MDI) and pseudo multi-window modes (PMDI); *... Open Source Windows PortableApps.com No features added Add a feature
59 Like Leafpad Good alternative? YES NO Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Features: Codeset option (Some... Open Source Linux Xfce Drag n drop Lightweight Add a feature
104 Like jEdit Good alternative? YES NO jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it. While jEdit beats many expensive development tools for features and ease of use, it is... Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
103 Like WriteMonkey Alternative? YES NO Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. Freemium Windows Customizable Distraction free writing Fullscreen support MarkDown support Distraction-free UI Add a feature Discontinued No updates since 2014. See changelog http://writemonkey.com/
40 Like Light Table Good alternative? YES NO Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our... Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell No features added Add a feature
